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▷搭配/生词

• square up to somebody/something 果敢地面对某人/某事；清账，结账；摆好打斗的架势

•……matters close to their hearts and stomachs

•hail from something (old-fashioned） 出生于

•brotherly adj  

-showing feelings of kindness, loyalty etc that you would expect a brother to show 情同手足的，兄弟的，兄弟般的 → sisterly

  -brotherly love 兄弟之爱

  -brotherly advice 兄长般的劝告

•pretzel /ˈpretsəl/ noun [C]  

-a hard salty type of bread baked in the shape of a stick or a loose knot 椒盐棒棒饼，蝴蝶脆饼〖从图片看应该是“碱水结”，但我两样都没吃过不知道是不是同一种东西〗

•confluence n. （河的）汇合点，合流处

•influx n. 流入;涌进

-An influx of people or things into a place is their arrival there in large numbers.

•smother v. 完全覆盖，厚厚地覆盖；使窒息，把……闷死

-smother something with/in something

•make a pit stop [AmE] (informal )〔长途旅程中用餐、加油、上厕所等的〕中途停车

▷专有名词

•Philadelphia Eagles 美国的一支橄榄球队：费城老鹰

•Kansas City Chiefs  堪萨斯城酋长队

•Missouri  密苏里（美国州名）

•Declaration of Independence 《独立宣言》

•Liberty Bell n. 〈美〉独立钟(指美国费城独立厅的大钟,1776年7月4日鸣此钟宣布美国独立,1835年被损)